{"id":244951,"date":"2022-03-03T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=244951"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:22:40","slug":"europe-scrambles-to-reduce-its-dependency-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=244951","title":{"rendered":"Europe scrambles to reduce its dependency on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) \u2014 Europe is scrambling to reduce its natural gas dependence on Russia, and it won&#8217;t be easy. Governments are rolling out plans for new gas imports and pipelines. But that&#8217;s going to take time. For now, they&#8217;re rounding up more liquid gas that can come by ship instead of by pipeline from Russia. But the pressure is on because gas prices have hit a record for a second day in a row Thursday. Gas is still flowing for now, but that price spike is being driven by fears that eventually Western sanctions will either hit Russia&#8217;s gas and oil business or that Russia may retaliate by restricting supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) \u2014 Europe is scrambling to reduce its natural gas dependence on Russia, and it won&#8217;t be easy. Governments are rolling out plans for new gas imports and pipelines. But that&#8217;s going to take time. For now, they&#8217;re rounding up more liquid gas that can come by ship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244953,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244951\/revisions\/244953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}